JUST IN: El-Rufai Speaks On Aso Villa Cabal Working Against Tinubu

JUST IN: El-Rufai Speaks On Aso Villa Cabal Working Against Tinubu

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State said on Thursday that he will expose the “elements” in the Presidential Villa who are working against the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, and want him to lose the February 25 election.

In an interview with TVC News on Thursday evening, Mr El-Rufai claimed that the currency swap implemented by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) was designed to incite voters against the APC and was orchestrated by forces determined to ensure that the APC presidential candidate loses the election.

The CBN announced the new naira notes policy in October, with the 31st of January initially set as the deadline for the use of the old notes. The CBN governor, who announced the policy, had planned to run against Mr Tinubu for the APC ticket, but was forced to withdraw due to public pressure, with many questioning the correctness and legality of the bank chief entering active politics.

Mr El-Rufai stated on Thursday that the unnamed individuals hiding behind President Muhammadu Buhari are pursuing their interests by inciting voters against the APC through the currency swap.

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“We are not against the policy, cashless is the way to go, but you can’t do it in a few weeks. Allow time for every farmer, trader, student, and market woman in the village and to the city to be able to take their money in the banks and get new currencies or take the bullion van to them with the security and change their money.

“It is not everywhere that POS work, and it’s not everywhere you have bank branches. Let’s look for reasonable times according to the CBN Act before the legal tender ceases to exist,” the governor said.

Mr Emefiele and President Buhari had defended the policy, claiming that people with old notes had three months to exchange them for new ones. However, the scarcity of the new notes has caused hardship for millions of Nigerians, with many having to wait for hours in long lines to obtain cash.

On Wednesday, Mr El-Rufai claimed that the Aso Villa cabal was working against Mr Tinubu because their preferred candidate did not win the APC primary. He did not name names, but there were allegations that Mr Buhari’s close aides encouraged Mr Emefiele to run for the APC presidential ticket. After Mr Emefiele dropped out, his aides allegedly backed Senate President Ahmad Lawan, who finished fourth in the APC primary.

Mr El-Rufai believes the cabal members are only using the currency swap policy in Mr Buhari’s name to exact revenge.

He stated that those working in the president’s name to inflict pain on Nigerians will be exposed after the election.

“Unmasking them (cabals) is not as joyful as defeating them,” he said. “They will be unmasked in time. We have defeated them when they wanted their people in the national working committee of the APC. We have defeated them when they wanted their own anointed person to be the presidential candidate without due regard, due process or even respect for those of us who are governors, that put the party together, campaign for it and deliver the election twice.”

“We didn’t matter, we are governors and (people saying) governors are corrupt, they are bad, meanwhile, none of them has contested an election and won an election and if they did they won’t win.

“I have been elected twice with over a million votes as governor of Kaduna State, I can claim to speak for the people, (but) none of these (cabals) can. We will come to the unmasking stage; this is not the stage. The stage now is to draw the attention of Nigerians that there are elements that are doing this and they don’t mean well to our party, they want to incite voters against our party so that we lose the election.

“Now once Nigerians know that they will know where the funny decisions are coming from and once the election is done and settled, by the grace of God in about three weeks and I am confident, we are not sleeping, we are going to work hard until 27 February when the election results are out and by the grace of God, Bola Tinubu is elected and other candidates of the APC, then we will unmask them (Cabals),” he said.

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